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Speaker Sessions

The Mustard Seed is hosting Speaker Sessions to bring our community together through education and training on a variety of topics important to our organization. We invite you to explore the issues surrounding poverty and homelessness in Edmonton in an informative and engaging environment.

Speaker

Paula Cornell

Community Programs Manager, The Mustard Seed

Paula is a social worker, idea generator and Community Programs Manager at The Mustard Seed. She is passionate about cooking, eating, getting people to work together, and teaching about the problem of poverty and creative ways to solve it. Paula has been working with people experiencing poverty and homelessness since 2008.

Topic

Re-Defining Poverty

For years, charity has been the standard model in poverty alleviation. We’ve built an entire industry on helping people based around free meals, free clothes, shelters, volunteer groups, and drop-in programs. But we haven’t ended poverty yet. What if we re-defined what poverty actually is? Would re-defining the problem impact the way we solve it? This workshop invites participants to re-define poverty, explore a different approach to poverty alleviation, cultivate questions to ask for change, and give practical examples of change in action.